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U+6E20, 渠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E20

[U+6E1F]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6E21]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 85, +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水尸木 (ESD), four-corner 31904, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 633, character 48
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17764
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1040, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1645, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6E20

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *ɡa) : semantic (water) + abbreviated phonetic (OC *kʷaʔ).

Etymology 1

trad.
simp. #
2nd round simp.
“ditch; canal; drain”
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-ka ~ *k(r)a (path; way; channel; ditch); probably the same word as (OC *ɡʷa, “passage”) (Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Tibetan རྐ (rka, gutter; channel; furrow).

Pronunciation

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Definitions

(deprecated template usage)

  1. ditch; canal; drain; man-made channel (Classifier: m c)
      ―  Líng  ―  Lingqu (a canal in present-day Xing'an County, Guangxi, China, constructed in 214 BCE)
    污水 [Cantonese]  ―  wu1 seoi2 keoi4 [Jyutping]  ―  sewer
  2. (literary) big; huge
  3. a surname
Usage notes

Unlike (gōu), which refers to both artificial and natural watercourses, () refers only to artificial watercourses.

Compounds

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Etymology 2

trad.
simp. #
2nd round simp.
alternative forms 𠍲
dialectal
S. Sixian Hakka; Shanghainese

Attested since 4th to 5th century CE, preserved in many central and southern dialects (Schuessler, 2007). See and .

Pronunciation

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Definitions

(deprecated template usage)

  1. (literary or dialectal) third-person pronoun; he; she; it
Synonyms

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): きょ (kyo)
  • Kun: みぞ (mizo, )かれ (kare, )なんぞ (nanzo, 渠ぞ)

Korean

Hanja

(eum (geo))

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: cừ, gừa, khờ, cự

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